Cordeos

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  1. Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready

    I made these last night: https://food52.com/recipes/18563-tofu-and-black-bean-enchiladas Only change I made was adding Oaxaca cheese that I had left over from making tamales. I was in a rush so didn't take any pictures (above is from the article, note the quality). But they are tasty.
  2. I Had A Random Thought...

    Idle Thumbs 466: Diplomatic Beef Idle Thumbs 1105: Cruisin' For A Clone Idle Thumbs 728: The Ennui of Big Bird's Video Games
  3. Life

    It seems like waiting in a bad situation doesn't help anyone. If she is already not happy with the relationship, I don't think would keeping it going longer and it potentially getting worse is a good option.
  4. Hitman: Steve Gaynor Edition

    Do you know if this is intentional? might be worth contacting them about it. The Sapienza bonus level seems to be the more fun one, its a lot more along the lines of Hitman's dark weird sense of humor. There are a lot of opportunities to sabotage the movie set and I want to try all of them The Marrakesh bonus level is more a classic level. Still good, but not as unique. The patch that came along with the level added a feature that I wanted for a while. Items in your inventory now let you know if they will be found via frisking.
  5. Hitman: Steve Gaynor Edition

    There was a great ad campaign for Hitman where you had to pick between Gary Busey and Gary Cole as to who we got to kill: There are 6 videos for this campaign, I suggest you watch all of them
  6. Please tip your postmate

    Whats bullshit is companies relying on the tip economy to subsidize a poverty wage. Your meal would cost about the same if the staff made a living wage, so help out your fellow human by paying them a little bit? As for delivery people figuring it out with postmate I would refer you to the current state of unions in this country (under attack from the right wing media and governments) and the power disparities between corporations and employees which are amplified by the gig economy things like Uber and Postmates relies on.
  7. Total Warhammer

    First expansion announced: Beastmen “With a uniquely aggressive horde-style campaign game, the Beastmen are masters of unconventional warfare both on and off the battlefield. They feature an array of unique gameplay mechanics, including the ability to travel through overgrown Beastpaths to outmanoeuvre unsuspecting foes and, through a dark bond with Morrslieb, the Chaos Moon, perform twisted acts of faith to gain its favour.” https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/14/total-warhammer-beastmen-expansion-announced/
  8. Episode 360: Hearts of Iron IV

    I just wanted to say I saw the Nationalists win the Spanish Civil war very quickly. I totally stayed out of it, building up my neo-ottoman empire as Turkey. I personally like the game, since it lets me tweak one knob in WWII history and see how things turn out as a result. My Neo-Ottoman Empire conquered Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman before joining the Allies as the war turned Against the Axis. It was a ton of fun!
  9. Hearts of Iron 4

    I can confirm that the game is much more understandable than HoI3. I played the tutorial quick then jumped into playing Turkey. My plan was to conquer Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and snag Armenia/Azerbaijan from Iran. After that I would wait for the war to turn against the Germans and join the Allies to secure some more European territory for my Ottoman Empire 2.0. My plan went fine up until the war with Iran. I quickly secured my objectives but due to a miss-understanding of how war score works I ended up having to conquer most of Iran to get them to surrender a relatively small part of their nation. The end result of which was a very long war that ended with my just claiming all of Iran because I had already conquered most of it. The next hurdle was joining the Allies. I had used my National Focus to industrialize and try to get nukes (My end goal was a Turkey controlling almost all of Middle East oil and with a few Nukes in its pocket, making it a Cold War powerhouse.) As a result I had a different ideology than the allies and they would not let me in. I solved this by declaring a war of conquest on Fascist Bulgaria and getting pulled into the war when all their allies declared on me. Now on the allied side I was able to quickly smash Bulgaria and join up with the Soviet lines in Romania. (In my game the Soviets declared war on the Germans first and had been pushing a front line towards them for almost two years. The US seems sort of aimless? and France ended up liberating themselves.) I am not at the point where Europe has been completely liberated, but because all of Africa fell to the Italians and a little bit to Spain and Germans, the war has moved there, but is almost over. The problem now is that Japan is not getting attacked. Hopefully I can figure out how to build some nukes and shortcut my way to victory. I do not want to load Turkish troops onto boats to invade Japan.
  10. I remember playing the 8-Up game on Sega Game Gear
  11. "In 2011, we added a feature to Steam that enabled users to trade in-game items as a way to make it easier for people to get the items they wanted in games featuring in-game economies. Since then a number of gambling sites started leveraging the Steam trading system, and there’s been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites. We’d like to clarify that we have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them. And Steam does not have a system for turning in-game items into real world currency. These sites have basically pieced together their operations in two-part fashion. First, they are using the OpenID API as a way for users to prove ownership of their Steam accounts and items. Any other information they obtain about a user's Steam account is either manually disclosed by the user or obtained from the user’s Steam Community profile (when the user has chosen to make their profile public). Second, they create automated Steam accounts that make the same web calls as individual Steam users. Using the OpenID API and making the same web calls as Steam users to run a gambling business is not allowed by our API nor our user agreements. We are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam, and further pursue the matter as necessary. Users should probably consider this information as they manage their in-game item inventory and trade activity. -Erik Johnson" http://store.steampowered.com/news/22883/
  12. Not a great week for youtubers and ethics "Warner Bros. paid PewDiePie and other digital stars upwards of tens of thousands of dollars each to promote a 2014 game based on the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” without properly disclosing the arrangements, according to the Federal Trade Commission." http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/warner-bros-pewdiepie-ftc-1201811908/
  13. Idle Thumbs Readers Slack & Discord

    I often look for it there, makes sense to me.
  14. Idle Thumbs Readers Slack & Discord

    https://idlethumbsreaders.slack.com/
  15. Pokemon GO

    I deleted last night after realizing how much cell phone data it was using and how fast it eats my battery. I also hit a wall on caring about catching them all. The game feels very shallow.
  16. Quitter's Club: Don't be ashamed to quit the game.

    I picked up PROTOTYPE 2 during the summer sale. After completing about 2/3rds of the game I hit a bug where I can no longer trigger any missions. I don't really feel like replaying the game right now. It was fun, but I think I liked the original game better, they simplified a lot of the systems and made the map smaller in ways that make me feel less like a god of destruction. Similarly The Darkness 2 crashes to desktop when I try to start a new game. Sad that there are so many broken games on steam Tom Clancy's HAWKS 2 is similarly bugged.
  17. Hitman: Steve Gaynor Edition

    The next elusive target will be one of a pair of twins. You need to kill one and not even touch the other. Sounds fun, but really hard.
  18. New people: Read this, say hi.

    The Neverhood is a great reason to do anything Welcome!
  19. Pokemon GO

    Bats are hard to catch
  20. Life

    Congratulations!
  21. Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready

    I made one of my favorite one pot meals, I usually double the amount of beans and add cashews for more nutrition: https://food52.com/recipes/13508-caribbean-rice-and-beans
  22. The Big VR Thread

    I haven't played around with ReVive much, but might do so to check out farland
  23. Hitman: Steve Gaynor Edition

    got the target